The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Andy Burnham, presented this Wednesday a nationwide campaign endowed with 442 million pounds (about 515 million euros), with the aim of ensuring that no one is left without a roof over their head at Christmas and thus putting an end to homelessness in...
The value of housing in the municipalities of the Spanish coast, excluding the provincial capitals, rose by 13.5% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2026, reaching 1,992 euros per square meter. This increase places the purchase effort at 40% of the disposable income of the average household and begins to...
The Government Commission of the Barcelona City Council has given the green light to a fivefold increase in the budget allocated for aid to property owner communities that decide to veto tourist apartments, after the initial "success" of the initiative. The allocation goes from 56,000 to 256,000 euros.The city council...
42% of Spaniards have considered building their own home in the face of increasing barriers to accessing a house, although only 8.5% see it as a defined project, according to the IV Observatory on Housing and Sustainability of UCI. The report emphasizes that interest in self-construction skyrockets to 52% among...
The economic effort that households must make to assume the rent of a home in Spain has increased to 39% of their net income during the second quarter of 2026, according to a report prepared by idealista. This percentage is 10 points above the 29% that is required, on average,...
The average time for a homeowner to recover their home after a default is already 11 months in Spain in 2026, according to the records of the Spanish Guaranteed Rental Society (SEAG). The entity warns that, in the most convoluted procedures, this period can extend more than two years from...
The federal coordinator of Izquierda Unida, Antonio Maíllo, has demanded that the socialist part of the Government show more "punch" in the preparation of the General State Budgets (PGE) for 2027. He warns that it would be "a deception" to bring the project to the Cortes without the real will...
Six out of ten owners have decided to raise the requirements to rent their home in the last year, in a scenario marked by the increase in rents, very high demand, and an increasingly scarce supply, according to a study conducted by the real estate network donpiso.The analysis points out...
The National Institute of Statistics (INE) disseminated this Thursday the updated data of the reference index for the annual review of rental contracts. In July, this indicator stood at 2.49% year-on-year, which represents 0.05 points more than in June and marks the highest level since the start of the statistical...
The public perception of tourism in Spain has recorded an advance in the last year, after closing the second quarter with an average score of 5.4 points out of 10. This score represents an increase of seven tenths compared to the same period of 2025, according to the latest edition...
Iberdrola and the Foundation Association of Real Estate Developers of Madrid (Asprima) have signed an alliance aimed at reinforcing electrification and energy efficiency in new residential developments.By virtue of this agreement, both organizations will collaborate in a knowledge exchange environment in which real success cases will be presented, with the...
MÉS per Mallorca has proposed the elimination of 130,000 tourist places, the restriction of rental cars, and new rules against real estate speculation after the second major protest against summer overcrowding, held last Saturday in Sóller.In a public statement, the ecosoberanists have urged to implement a comprehensive package of tourist...
The average cost of rental housing in Spain stood in July at 14.82 euros per square meter, which represents a slight increase of 0.07% compared to June and a rise of 9.45% compared to July 2025, according to the monthly rental price report prepared by pisos.com.The director of Studies at...
The Sociological Research Center (CIS) will launch a new Housing Barometer, developed jointly with the Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda, in order to analyze the policies applied so far and plan new actions against what its own surveys indicate as the main problem in the country. The budget for...
The general secretary of the Socialist Youth of Spain, Aránzazu Figueroa, has lashed out at the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, whom she accuses of "living the good life" and going "from penthouse to penthouse" while numerous young people and families in Madrid are unable to...
The Ibex 35 has concluded the first week of August with an advance of 1.99%, reaching 20,176 points, in days marked by the overcoming of the symbolic threshold of 20,000 points.In the accumulated data for 2024, the benchmark index of the Spanish Stock Exchanges and Markets has already recorded a...
The residential rental market maintains "maximum levels" and barely shows changes in Madrid and Barcelona during the second quarter of 2026, according to the latest report prepared by the company MVGM and released this Friday. However, sale prices have followed opposite trajectories: in the capital, they have moderated by 0.8%,...
The real estate market in Spain is expected to move around 77.584 million euros and 53.2 million square meters of buildable space between 2026 and 2031, according to projections released this Friday by EY, which speaks of "a new phase of growth" despite the "increase in costs and regulatory uncertainty."The...
The president of Junts in the Parliament, Mònica Sales, has positioned her party as the main alternative to the Government of Salvador Illa as two years have passed since his arrival at the presidency of the Generalitat: "He is sinking Catalunya, he is ruining the country from top to bottom."In...
The Ibex 35 of the Madrid Stock Exchange has started the session this Friday practically unchanged, with a slight correction of 0.04%, placing it at 20,173 points, just below the historical maximum of 20,180 units reached at the close of the previous session. After the first few minutes of trading,...
The rental market in Spain ended in July a stage of 52 consecutive months of year-on-year increases. According to the Fotocasa Real Estate Index, the average price stood at 14.14 euros per square meter after registering a decrease of 1.6% compared to the same month of the previous year.In the...
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Agenda has announced the selection of 174 projects from a total of 711 applications submitted for the XIV Ibero-American Biennial of Architecture and Urbanism (BIAU), which will take place in Brasilia (Brazil) from November 3 to 7, 2026.As the department pointed out this Wednesday,...
The spokesperson for Vox in the General Board of the Principality of Asturias, Carolina López, has attacked this Wednesday the housing policy of the regional government, which she blames for worsening the housing crisis in Asturias with interventionist measures that, in her opinion, scare away property owners.López has pointed out...
The spokesperson for Vox in the Parlament, Joan Garriga, has applauded the ruling of the Consell de Garanties Estatutàries (CGE), which according to him "dismantles" the bill that aimed to restrict speculative housing purchases.In a message published this Tuesday on the social network 'X' and reported by Europa Press, he...
The spokesperson for the CUP, Su Moreno, has announced that her party will bring an initiative to the Parliament in September to prohibit speculative housing purchases, in coordination with the housing movement.Moreno has stated this in a message collected by Europa Press after the ruling of the Consell de Garanties...